Romeo and Juliet
by: Iroh's Tea Shoppe Girls
Disclaimer: You know the drill, Avatar: The Last Airbender isn't ours. Neither is Iroh. :-(
In accordance with Water Tribe customs, Katara had been given a burial at sea. Her cold body drifted on the waves, waves that the girl had been able to bend. Only one thing was wrong. Katara was not actually dead.
The girl had taken a potion that made her "almost dead." She had gotten it from a pharmacist at the last town they had visited. Her "death" had been something she had planned. She had known that the old Katara, who traveled with her brother and the Avatar, who always had to push away her dreams for others, couldn't love Zuko. That was why she had to fake her own death. That was why she had to let those she considered family believe her dead.
The piece of wood she'd been sent off on, it was really not much more than a flimsy box, shock when the waterbender awoke. Katara barely caught herself before she capsized it. It was going to be much more difficult than she had planned. Her plan was to waterbend herself to Zuko's ship. She was barely able to do that, but it was at an excruciatingly slow pace.
Instead of surprising her love, Zuko, as she had hoped, she was surprised by the corpse of her love. Katara fell to her knees sobbing uncontrollably when she saw Zuko's lifeless eyes staring blankly at her. She had just given up Sokka and Aang for him. But now he was dead. After a moment of grief-influenced reasoning she she pried his cold hands from the knife which had slain him and dove it into her own breast. It had been an all around sad affair, in an odd way, Katara was just grateful to die with Zuko. After all, how else could the two teens have been together?